Caitie Velat

HD 300
Professor Franklin
2/24/15
Journal #1 Birth-5 years
I did my observation on Daisy on Sunday, February 22, 2015 at Bethany Christian
Church. Daisy is about a five year old who is Chinese and comes from a rather affluent
class. The child was trying to learn a bible verse throughout the morning that went along
with the bible story. When the child was playing outside I had noticed she had played by
herself quite a bit, but her mom had tried to get her more involved whenever she had
gone to her for a hug. So, daisy was learning not to hang on to her mom so much.
The adult is trying to learn how to be patient with managing about ten kids (nine
others) in the room). I am learning the following things how to have patience with
managing children when there are at least five or more kids in the room, how to tell a
bible story and also a bible verse with this age group. One way of how you could have
the child learn a bible verse at this age is by saying it and then having the children repeat
it, for example a bible verse could be Matthew 11:28 come to me and I will give you
rest. You want to try to make the bible verses simple and easy enough for the child to
memorize at this child, so that they do not feel overwhelmed by trying to remember a
long verse.
Another way is to have the kids do a coloring page that goes along with the bible
story that you are trying to teach them, on this day after snack the teacher (Daisys mom)
had given the kids a coloring page for the kids to color that went along with the story and
she had also gone over the bible verse with the kids while they were having their snack,
which consisted of flour tortillas and strawberry cream cheese. Another example of what

I had observed is when Daisys mom had put on a video with music that had bible songs
that the kids could dance too, when they were done coloring their coloring page.
Everyone had taken part in doing this activity including Daisy, one of the songs that was
on the video at the end was Jump and Run to Jesus.
The Bible story was about Barn ababas who was a blind man. One last thing that I
had observed was that Daisys mom had started off with a song that she had taught them
the week before called Jesus Heals to see how many of the kids had remembered it.
After the story she had sang another song called God is So Good before praying for the
snack.
Yes, the only issue that I saw was shyness in Daisy, she is pretty much well
behaved otherwise. I believe that if her mom had not been in the classroom that she
probably would not have been so shy and she may be more willing to interact with the
other kids her age. Although, she is also home schooled so that could be another reason
why she is more shy, maybe she does not have a lot of friends her age at her house on a
regular basis, but she does have two twin brothers though. It is possible that she could
play with her twin brothers but because they are three years older than she is they
probably do not, so she probably has to try to entertain herself most of the time.
This child is similar to me at this age because I was also very shy and did not
want to play a lot with other children, part of the reason is because I have two older
sisters that are five and six years older than me. An example of how I entertained myself
is by playing with my dolls and stuffed animals and pretending that they were students
and I was the teacher, and I was teaching them. A second example of how I entertained
myself is by dancing or even exercising in the basement in Pennsylvania. Another

example which is probably different from Daisy and that is I would entertain myself by
playing basketball by myself for hours at a time in Pennsylvania. I would also entertain
myself reading to my stuffed animals.
I think that I would have probably reacted the same way, as a matter of fact I think
I probably did even at some point when I was younger. As I remember when I was really
young I was always shy and then as I started getting older I started less and less shy but
did not full come out of shyness until I was in my twenties though.
As a child of this age Eriksons psychosocial stages would apply to me in the
following ways: I had quite a bit of mistrust, doubt, and guilt. I had a lot of this because I
was always made to feel guilty whenever I did something. My mom and dad never really
gave me reassurance that I could do something like when I was in high school and I had
wanted to get an after school job they did not have the faith that I could handle it, so they
did not allow me to get one. I had issues of trust with my mom; because, she was not
always consistent in what she did, my dad was more consistent but yet traveled a lot for
his job.
The following psychosocial stages of Erikson that do not apply to me are the
following: Industry vs. Inferiority, Identity vs. Role Confusion, and Integrity vs. Despair.
My parents never really helped me to show who I was and I never really felt confused;
because, I had teachers that were encouraging to me. While my parents never really
focused much on any of these things, I may have had a little bit of each but not much
though from my sisters and other people in my life though.

Book Reflection
I chose the book Wee Little Lamb by Lauren Thompson I chose this book for
Daisy; because, at the beginning the baby lamb is wanting to stay by her mother and then
in the end the lamb will eventually go off and play with a baby mouse. At the beginning
of the day Daisy just wanted hang around her mother than engaging in play with any of
the other kids. Daisy is very shy and slow to warm up to others. Daisy is a person that
will want to do everything that she can when it is time for play, and will do more than one
thing. For instance, she may go down the slide a few times, and then slide down a pole a
few times, and then even dance or color.
Yes, this book would fit a description of me at Daisys age because I was also
very shy and slow to warm up to others as well. Because whenever someone new would
come over I believe that I would always run away, or at least not look at them in them in
the face. I would also not want to shake the persons hand right away. Once I got going in
school or even on a project, even if it was something simple like cleaning my room I
would or even memorizing spelling words, I could then do it for hours.